Fittipaldi Reports It's Over For Piquet

Indy notes

May 22, 1992

Emerson Fittipaldi said Thursday that fellow Brazilian Nelson Piquet told him his racing career is over.

''I made a bet that he's going to be back in a racing car. And he told me that, even to take a picture, he doesn't sit anymore in a racing car,'' Fittipaldi said after he visited Piquet at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

Piquet crashed May 7 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and has had leg surgery four times since.

SUPER MARIO

MARIO ANDRETTI posted the fastest speed of 226.409 mph in the final practice run Thursday. He was followed by Arie Luyendyk (225.423) and Michael Andretti (225.220).